Images copyright Paul McCreedie © 2010 / Catherine Griffiths © 2009

01 typography in the landscape

Athfield Architects Wayfinding
A hillside intervention, Wellington, NZ
2011

AEIOU
A typo/sound sculpture, Wellington, NZ
2009

Wellington Writers Walk
A series of 15 concrete text sculptures, Wellington, NZ
2002 and 2004

Ponatahi House
A house wrapped in literature, Wairarapa, NZ
2003

Distance Markers
A series of cast-iron, number discs, Wellington, NZ
2004

AEIOU a typo/sound sculpture

2009

Commissioned by Karen Krogh Architects, for Cubana Apartments, Wellington, NZ

A typo/sound installation where the observer delivers the sound. AEIOU is constructed of five vowels in steel, lightly stacked five metres high on a first level terrace in Wellington. This installation is the first in the series — Sound Tracks, 2011 is the second — where I respond with the vowels wherever space and funding can be found. I continue to record sound responses to AEIOU made by observers, as an expanding sound score.

5.0m high x 2.5m wide, steel

Awarded one of ten honorable mentions at Zgraf 11, by the International Jury: Niklaus Troxler, Barbara deWilde, Rick Poynor and Boris Ljubicic

related reading

Inner-City Modality
Sound Tracks, 2011